Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-02-02
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
SLAIN FOR HIS MONEY.
The Man Found On TaIcott
Mountain.
B0ODLER O'NEIL FOUND GUILTY.
A Bold Strike BY Train
Robbers.
THE REDUCTION OF THE DEBT.
Workingmen Will Refuse
To Pay Rent.
The REDUCTION OF THE DEBT.

| TALCOTT MOUNTAINS TRAGEDY.
Facts which Go to show That the
| Dead Cattle Dealer Was Murdered
For His Money.
BALDw1Nsv1LLE, Mass. Feb. 1.-The facts
| which lead to the belief that Cyrus Chaplin
| the Boston cattle dealer, was murdered here
| by Charles w. Cobleigh and the body subse-
quently taken in a wagon to Talcott noun
| tain, Connecticut, and hanged to tree, are
| as follows: No reason is known why Chaplin
should commit suicide. He was well known
in Tariffville and Bloomfield, Ct, yet no one
saw him in that vicinity when he was sup
posed to have committed the deed. Chaplin
was last seen crossing Templeton common
December 26, 1885, on his way to call on
Charles W. Cobleigh to collect the price of a
heifer Later when Cobleigh and his wife
had separated Mrs Cobleigh went to the mill
where her husband was employed and said
in the presence of witnesses: ''I want you to
give me money for me and my children.
You've got it and you've got to give me
some. If you do not I'll tell what
know about you that will put
you where you can not get away"
On the 18th of June last Cobleigh went to
the house of Frank Hill where his wife was
living and killed her instantly with shot
from a revolver. She did not breathe word
after the shot was fired. No good motive
could then be deducsd for the crime. Cob
leigh was arrested and pronounced insane
and is now in the asylum at Worcester.
About that time Frank Hill told the dsteo
tives that few days before her death Mrs.
Cobleigh asserted in his presence on the day
following Christmas, 1885, she saw Cyrus
Chaplin come up the road alone, turn into
the yard, meet her husband and after the
two men had talked few minutes saw them
go into the barn and noted that the door was
closed behind them. This was about 2
O'Clock in the afternoon and neither
party was again seen by her I'M
til about o'clock in the evening
when her husband came out alone
much excited with blood on his hands, boots
and overalls. He went to the sink, washed
his hands, failed to eat his supper and went
to bed about o'clock. He tossed and rolled
until 3 o'clock in the morning when he got
up went out to the barn and remained there
until daylight. Chaplin was known to have
had 81 800 on his person and soon after his
disappearance Cobleigh's son, worthless
chap, purchased 81. 900 worth of property and
paid for it cash down. The next spring Cob
leigh took team, placed large trunk
in it and started out ostensibly
to peddle essences. No one can be found
who sold him his stock or who bought of
him, but certain family under the shadow
of Talcott mountain in Connecticut is known
to have acquired considerable money about
that time
Chapins body was inferred here to-day.
Cobleigh has been interviewed in the asylum.
Forgetting former declaration he admitted
that he was we'll acquainted with Chaplin, but
would not talk about that individuals disap
pearance other than to emphatically say,
when informed that his wife had told that he
murdered Chaplin, that it was id lie"
During the interview Cobleigh was nervous
and excited and was manifestly DESTROYS of
changing the subject.